APUSH Thematic Review Top 60
A categorical examination of patterns, trends and themes

This collection of patterns, trends and themes was adapted from John A. Garraty’s  101 Things Every College Graduate Should Know About American History and  101 More Things Every College Graduate Should Know About American History originally published in American Heritage.

LET’S MAKE A DEAL  (answer key)  

1. The Great Compromise  (1787) 

2.  The Three-fifths Compromise  (1787)

3. Missouri Compromise. It was 1820  

4. The Compromise Tariff  1833)

5. Compromise of 1850  

6. The Crittenden Compromise   (1860)

7. The Compromise of 1877 

8. The Atlanta Compromise(1895). 

GOOD PHRASES FOR BIG ISSUES (answer key)

9. THE GREAT WAR FOR THE EMPIRE

10. THE AMERICAN SYSTEM

11. THE PECULIAR INSTITUTION

12.  MANIFEST DESTINY   

13. WAVING THE BLOODY SHIRT  

14.  THE ROBBER BARONS

SLOGANS THAT GRABBED US  (answer key)

15 O Grab Me.

16 Corrupt Bargain.

17 Bleeding Kansas.

18 Cotton Is King

19 Seward’s Folly  

20 Remember the “Maine.”

21  Keep Cool with Coolidge.  

22  Massive Retaliation.  

23. All the Way with LBJ.

24.  It’s Morning in America Again.